GEOGRAPHY FACTS Alaska More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .. Amazon The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth […]

The State of Families, Class and Culture By ARLIE HOCHSCHILD After stating the obvious (blue collar Americans have been the shock absorbers of the financial crisis and the shift from an industrial to an information based economy) the author ends by blaming high divorce rates and serial monogamy on “a continual state of unconscious immersion […]